"ON STRANGE SEAS."

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 118, 18 May 1920, Page 5

"ON STRANGE SEAS."

DISMAL ENGLISH PICTURE. FREMANTLE, Hay 9. _ Ajcording to the Rev. E. S. Kcik, late el Halifax, Yorkshire, who ha 3 been appointed principal of the Parkin Congregational" Church, Adelaide, and arrived by the Orsova yesterilay, the industrial position in England is alarming. , He said that even more so than in Australia wages were chasing prices in a vicious circle. Everything was chaotic. People were chaotic in their thinking. Old political parties had been broken ttp, and everybody was drifting on a ■trange sea. The profiteering was abominable, and) Bottling had yet been done to deal «ffeethrely -with it, the established trilatmlg being a laughing stock. But tax as commodities were in Australia,

they -were far dearer in England. One often heard of the new rich, but little *ie heard about the new poor, whose l*t was becoming increasingly hard. The tipper classes were making huge profits, *nd workers with their increased wages Ji»d some chance of making a living: l>6t people in between —particularly those on fixed salaries—were being hard pressed. The tendency in England in industrial eiftlee, added Mr. Keik, was toward . guild organisation.